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Blood Clot Factor
God makes an amazing scientific fact known to Israel before the advent of modern scientific data, which indicates the blood clotting factor in infants is over 100% on the eighth day after birth.
Gen 17.12 – … From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old…
God specifically tells Abraham to circumcise all infant males on the eighth day.
According to professor H. Dam, whom proposed that vitamin K was the factor in foods that helped prevent hemorrhaging in baby chicks in 1935. Vitamin K is responsible for the production of prothrombin.
Between the fifth and seventh days of the newborn’s life vitamin K which Is produced by bacteria in the intestinal tract is present in high quantities. Vitamin K along with prothrombin causes blood coagulation which is crucial in all surgical procedure.
Blood Clotting Observed in Infants
Pediatricians have recognized over the past century that newborns are highly susceptible to bleeding between the second and fifth days of life. this may cause hemorrhage usually inconsequential, sometimes it can be quite extensive which produces serious damage. This damage may effect the internal organs such as the brain or even cause death from shock and exsanguination (blood loss).
On the eighth day prothrombin present in infants elevates over 100% of the normal amount. This being the only day in a males life this occurs. Thus if surgery is to be performed, this is the perfect time to accomplish this.
References
Holt, L.E. and R. McIntosh (1953 p.125-126), Holt Pediatrics (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts), twelfth edition
McMillen, S.I. (1984), None of These Diseases (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell